[zeugma]

So, for XP users, before you install any new updates, check for the rootkit with any AV scanners you may have. Since the rootkit has been identified and known to modify a specific file, "atapi.sys", I'd probably try to find out what the correct md5sum of the file should be as a quick way of determining if you have an issue with this update.

If you find the specified rootkit, I'd strongly advise saving your data, wiping the disk, and install from known good media.

[bmwcyle]

bttt

[SkyDancer]

Interesting - my dad updated his XpPro, went ok ... so???

[RandallFlagg]

I got nuked last Saturday by a Vista update. Lost almost everything.

Working on my new gaming build a little faster now.

[Dawgreg]

I got it a few weeks ago. Hub fixed it since I don’t know how to do anything on a puter except turn it off and on. I thought it was from a game I had installed......oooops to the game provider for thinking they had a corrupted game.

[ShadowAce]

[Jagman]

All part of the plan!

[NY.SS-Bar9]

Good advice except most AV products will not detect rootkits.

[Notary Sojac]

I use a resident antivirus, firewall and spyware scanner (three separate products - I'm leery of the all-in one approach) on my XP machines which are all still SP2.

I do all my internet access in a virtual machine (Sun Virtualbox).

I install MS patches only after they've been out for a few weeks and when I know that what they do is something that I want done on my systems.

Never had a problem yet (knock wood)

[George from New England]

Do not let your system or Microsoft update your machine as a routine. I have about ten PCs and NONE of them allow updates.

If it ain’t broken, it don’t need another fix!

[George from New England]

Do not let your system or Microsoft update your machine as a routine. I have about ten PCs and NONE of them allow updates.

If it ain’t broken, it don’t need another fix!

[FroggyTheGremlim]

I fail to friggin’ understand - Toyota is being raked over the coals because of a so-called “sticking gas pedal” which any reasonable driver would know enough to throw the car in neutral and turn off the key.

And this problem only affects what, one car in a million?

Yet Microsoft products for OVER TWENTY YEARS are rife with bugs, insecurities, problems, errors, unusable crap, ... and Microsoft executives are NEVER HELD ACCOUNTABLE!

This is pure Bull Ship!!!

[Cold Heat]

Installed the update yesterday with no issues.

ATAPI is a cd instruction in the boot config no? I have not seen that one since win 95. Just wondering aloud,

[ezfindit]

Thanks for the warning! I’m letting others know also

[Forgiven_Sinner]

My XP PC is mothballed for now. If and when I start it up, I’ll look out for this.

My AV efforts have been diligent—I have two AV programs, Macafee and IOBit Security 360.

Practically, if you get this problem, try to boot from a recovery disk and then restore to an earlier state. Then run your AV and clean out the rootkit virus.

[USNA74]

bump for later

[Reaganwuzthebest]

The problem for me wasn’t this patch causing blue screens but one of the February patches somehow managed to delete “mkunicode.dll” from my Haali splitter folder. Without that file you can’t play MP4 or OGG videos. I suspect it was their DirectShow patch but it’s a good thing I had it backed up.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP

[Graybeard58]

So, for XP users, before you install any new updates, check for the rootkit with any AV scanners you may have. Since the rootkit has been identified and known to modify a specific file, "atapi.sys", I'd probably try to find out what the correct md5sum of the file should be as a quick way of determining if you have an issue with this update.

That's probably excellent advice. How many people here, including me, don't have a clue as to what you are talking about?

[NonValueAdded]

WiFi went out for me

[centurion316]

Since you probably can’t read this, you won’t know that your problem was not an isolated one. Many others had the same issue. By the time you’ve reinstalled a clean version of Windows and reinstalled all of your aps, you probably won’t care either